# Movie moments that caused genuine shock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807 "2020-09-17T03:58:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/141 "2020-09-23T05:11:17Z")
Nope. They just said “Talk some more so we can understand each other better.”. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/142 "2020-09-23T05:18:17Z")
You’re right about “Return to Tomorrow,” though I don’t think they mentioned the “native language” bit. That would make a lot of sense, though. In “The _Enterprise_ Incident,” it was heavily implied the Romulan Commander learned English as a foreign language. How this was possible after having had no contact with Earth for 100 years was not explained. Neither was how the rest of the Romulan crew apparently knew English as well. In _ **TOS** _, the handheld UT was seen only in the episode “Metamorphosis.” The rest of the time it apparently functioned through the ship’s communications system, or through the standard communicators when serving on a landing party. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/143 "2020-09-23T05:27:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In _ **TOS** _ , the handheld UT was seen only in the episode “Metamorphosis.” Okay, that’s the one I meant to refer to above, that gave the energy-cloud creature a female voice, allegedly (Kirk or someone speculated) because it wanted to “nurture” Zefram Cochrane. For a progressive, forward-looking sci-fi series of the day, TOS was sure heavy on sexist and gender-specific stereotypes. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/144 "2020-09-23T06:28:06Z")
Yeah, that scene in _Exorcist 3_. And the final scene in _Carrie_. It was on TV while I was also reading something at the time. But it still was quite a shock. From TV: I remember the first airing of the first _Twilight Zone_ episode. I was 8. In a scene, near the end, the actor runs down the theater stairs from the balcony and toward the camera, and from behind the camera he crashes into the large wall mirror on which we were actually seeing him. Also from TV: In the “Inspector Morse” episode, _The Way Through The Woods_, near the end the murderer very suddenly kills her husband with a shotgun blast to the chest in front of the horrified Sgt. Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/145 "2020-09-23T07:33:03Z")
Oh, well, if we’re going to include TV, then the end of the _Magnum, PI_ episode **Did You See the Sunrise?** Also when Angela revealed her real name in season one of _The Exorcism_. ---
**Author:** ![gmoney1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7c8e57/32.png) [@gmoney1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gmoney1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/146 "2020-09-23T12:12:56Z")
Thank you ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/147 "2020-09-23T14:39:41Z")
In DS9 episode “Little Green Men” Quark, Rom,and Nog get transported back in time to Earth in 1947(Roswell, NM to be specific). Their Universal Translators malfunctioned and they can’t understand what the humans are saying. Rom manages to fix them and not only are they are able to understand the humans but someone they are able to able to **speak** to the humans. So apparently the UTs are able to make them able to **speak** different languages as well or I am misunderstanding how they work. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/148 "2020-09-23T14:45:06Z")
I haven’t seen that episode, but from the others I know, it seems the UT can make anyone understand any language. It’s all done with brain waves. (At least, that was the explanation given in _ **TOS** _.) The only listener who always hears them speaking perfect English is the TV viewer. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/149 "2020-09-23T18:42:55Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Also from TV: In the “Inspector Morse” episode, _The Way Through The Woods_ , near the end the murderer very suddenly kills her husband with a shotgun blast to the chest in front of the horrified Sgt. Lewis. Feather In My Cap: I wasn’t surprised, saw that one coming. Yay, me, but hold your applause because… Black Eye: That is one of the VERY few times I’ve anticipated the big reveal in a Morse (or Lewis) episode. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/150 "2020-09-23T21:23:49Z")
> [@Ziberian](#): > > I’d heard there was a big surprise in The Crying Game, but mistook an earlier surprise for the big one. So I was totally relaxed and unsuspecting when the real surprise happened. My wife at the time, told me afterwards she thought, “Wow! That’s an amazing special effect!” Jaye Davidson did an amazing job. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/151 "2020-09-23T23:36:07Z")
In, “The Poseidon Adventure,” when the man falls from the table into the skylight, I remember a lot of shocked “Whoas.” ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/152 "2020-09-23T23:51:33Z")
the ending of the anime movie "the professional"l aka glogo 13 it was a shock just fit the nihilism of the movie ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/153 "2020-09-24T01:05:07Z")
Jaye Davidson was terrific, and so were the other actors – the surprise gave it a nice flavor, but it would have been a really good movie even had we known what was coming. And the final song was just too perfect! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/154 "2020-09-24T15:29:25Z")
Another TV moment: Early 80s hit tv series L.A. Law; when villainess Rosalind Shays steps into an empty elevator shaft. My mother and I were watching it in different rooms and we both yelled at the same time. At the commercial I walked into her bedroom and said something along the lines of, “did that just happen”? ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/155 "2020-09-24T17:38:35Z")
I remember an intense scene from the first Pet Semetary movie. When the boy leaves the picnicking family to chase the kite string towards the road… the juxtaposition of scenes, the boy, the panicking family, the speeding truck, cut, cut, cut. It built so rapidly and so forcefully that I didn’t realize I’d actually been holding my breath until it was over. Hit me as powerfully as, well, a truck. So I offer that as a moment that generated genuine shock, at least for me. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/156 "2020-09-24T17:42:54Z")
For me, it’s the scene in Casino, when Joe’s Pesci’s character (Nicky) and his brother are beaten half-to-death via baseball bats. The sound alone still makes me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/157 "2020-09-24T18:25:27Z")
Everything I’ve heard about that movie is horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/158 "2020-09-24T18:27:47Z")
^^Yeah, it’s pretty violent. Same thing with Goodfellas. ---
**Author:** ![Dadtheinhaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dadtheinhaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dadtheinhaler)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/159 "2020-09-24T18:40:58Z")
Yeah that wasn’t a happy moment in our house watching it with my early teen daughters. They were crying and my wife was mad at me for letting them watch it. > [@Skunkdog](#): > > The ending of “The Mist” caught me off guard completely. That was not expected after a fairly mundane and cookie-cutter horror movie. Especially since the Stephen King short story ended so much differently. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807/160 "2020-09-24T18:40:59Z")
> [@Ziberian](#): > > I’d heard there was a big surprise in The Crying Game, but mistook an earlier surprise for the big one. So I was totally relaxed and unsuspecting when the real surprise happened. I was actually unspoiled going into that movie but when the big reveal happened I was all “Well, duh, yeah.” Apparently my transdar is really on point because I spotted her as a not bio her almost from the jump. And yes, that scene from the original _Pet Sematary_ was gruelling, any time I’ve watched it since the first time I skip right over that because I just can’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-moments-that-caused-genuine-shock/920807.md?page=9)